Architect Frederick Roy Duncan Area 9 ha Added to NRHP 12 January 2005 | NRHP Reference # 04001466 Year built 1852 | |
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Location Downtown Butler centered on the courthouse square and includes resources on Main St., Broad St. and Ivey St., Butler, Georgia Architectural style Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Modern Movement MPS Georgia County Courthouses TR (AD) | ||
The Butler Downtown Historic District is a historic district in Butler, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
It includes 46 contributing buildings, and also contributing are one site and two other structures (one a Conferate monument).
The Taylor County Courthouse (see accompanying photos #1, #2, #6, #9, and #14) is central in the district. It was designed by Frederick Roy Duncan, was built in 1935, and was separately NRHP-listed in 1995.
The district has three historic gas stations (see photos #10, #11, and #12), which is unusual for a small town or any historic district.
The town's Masonic Lodge (1920; see photo #16) is a brick building with a parapet wall. It has "limestone Art Deco motifs at the corners and along the beltcourse."
On Ivey Street are two landmarks: